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Climate summit in Azerbaijan criticised over fossil fuel influence

UN climate summits are at risk of “undue corporate influence" and "fossil fuel industry capture”, two corruption watchdogs warned, as oil and gas producer Azerbaijan prepares to host the Cop29 in November.

Radio France Internationale

Cop29 host Azerbaijan set for major fossil gas expansion, report says

Exclusive: Those with ‘interest in keeping world hooked on fossil fuels’ should not oversee climate talks, say report authors

The Guardian - UK

Protests escalate in Turkey over Azerbaijani oil shipments to Israel amid embargo

Protests in Turkey are intensifying over Azerbaijani oil deliveries to Israel. Despite Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan imposing a trade embargo on Israel over its war against Hamas, the trade, which passes through a Turkish port, continues.

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‘You are the best El Jefe!’: Henry Cuellar’s Alleged Brazen Foreign Bribery Schemes

The powerful Laredo congressman is indicted for allegedly acting as a foreign agent for Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in exchange for at least $600,000 in bribes.

Texas Observer

Gas Booming For UN COP29 Host Azerbaijan

Following the UN's COP28 climate talks in oil-fuelled Dubai, the COP29 conference is headed for the historic cradle of oil, Azerbaijan, which is in the midst of a gas boom.

International Business Times

'Pushes us closer to the abyss': Former Azerbaijani oil executive to head COP29

Azerbaijan's ecology minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev was on Friday appointed to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks in a move that has sparked concern among NGOs and environmentalists who voiced similar worries over last year’s COP28 chair Sultan Al Jaber, chief of the United Arab Emirates’…

France 24

Azerbaijan names former oil executive to head Cop29 climate talks

Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, has been named as president-designate of the Cop29 climate conference. He will be the second oil executive in a row to head the global environmental summit after UAE's Sultan Al Jaber in 2023.

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Anger as oil and gas industry veteran chosen to lead next Cop climate talks

‘A dangerous and very unwelcome pattern is developing – the oil industry capture of the COP process,’ says Green Party co-leader

The Independent UK

Oil industry veteran to lead next round of Cop climate change summit

Mukhtar Babayev is named president-in-waiting of UN climate summit to be held in November

The Guardian - UK

Shell and Vitol accused of prolonging Ukraine war with sanctions ‘loophole’

Exclusive: Ukrainian economic adviser urges energy firms to heed deadline to halt trade of ‘Russian-origin oil products’

The Guardian - UK

Europe wary of Turkish hub to hide gas 'made in Moscow'

President Vladimir Putin's plan to make Turkey a hub for Russian gas in theory could allow Moscow to mask its exports with fuel from other sources, but that might not be enough to persuade Europeans to buy, analysts and sources said.

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